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34,420 citations from literature (mostly science fiction and fantasy) referring to real churches, religious groups, tribes, etc. [This database is for literary research only. It is not intended as a source of information about religion.]

"So it was heigh-ho, heigh-ho, off to work we go to find twelve squeaky-cleans I could claim I'd already edited, and what better place to look than Disney?... But animation wipes are comparatively easy, and all Alice in Wonderland had was a few smoke rings, so I was able to finish off the dozen and replenish my stock of deadly potions so at least I didn't have to finish Fantasia... "

Pg. 80: "Just for a moment, it seemed to Nog that Karon sensed he was hiding something from her... 'This was one of the fifteen attacks scheduled to . . . to keep the federation off-balance. We know about Project Phoenix and Project Guardian. Even Project Looking Glass. But we can't be sure you don't have other last-moment operations planned.'

...Even he had been told only a few details about it, and those only because of how they might relate to the timing of the Phoenix's mission. As for Looking Glass, that was a code name even he had never heard before. ";

Pg. 203: "'...He is learned in both German and English literature and has a fondness for the works of Frank Baum and Lewis Carroll. He often uses characters from them in his paintings. Both writers, by the way, were fond of puns.' "; Pg. 205: "'But first let us consider that Scarletin is equally at home in German or English. He loves the pun-loving Carroll and Baum. So, perhaps due to the contingencies of the situation, he is forced to pun in both languages.' "

science fiction - Alice in Wonderland

Florida

1986

Anthony, Piers. Shade of the Tree. New York: Tor (1986); pg. 156.

"...and we've just discovered that the walls are only mirrors, not really there, so we're floating through the mirror like Alice in wonderland, going on into a nice bright world outside where our night is their day... "

Pg. 197: "This is nuts, she thought as she watched the carpet move somehow through the window and into the ocean. And Alice thought she was in Wonderland. "; Pg. 275: "The curved wall partitions were colored black and white. There was a small window to the ocean next to the splash pool on her left. The ceilings were low and tight, only a couple of feet above her head, giving her a feeling of claustrophobia. So here I am again, she thought, Back in Wonderland. This time I will take pictures. "

"'We'd like to propose that the sub-elementary particles be designated 'snarks' and 'boojums,' ' March had said. 'When we picked the names, we didn't realize quite how appropriate they were. But after we worked on the math for a while we discovered that the two entities are actually images of one another, one real, one virtual.' He displayed on the auditorium screen a set of formulae, a transformation that proved the mathematical equivalence of the two separate particle-waves.

'Now,' March said with a completely straight face, 'and with apologies to Lewis Carroll:

'In the midst of the word we were trying to say,In the midst of our laughter and glee,We will softly and silently vanish away--For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.'

He and Madison left the podium.

After the presentation, Spock had heard one normally dignified elder scientist say, laughing, 'If they got bored with science they can go straight into stand-up comedy' "

Pg. 14: "The matter in the nebula had been blasted apart by the genesis wave, blasted beyond atoms, beyond subatomic particles, beyond quarks, down to the sub-elementary particles that Vance Madison and his partner Del March had whimsically named 'snarks' and 'boojums.' "; Pg. 39: "'...As far as we know yet, the two particles they discovered are the basis of the whole universe--and they named them 'snarks' and 'boojums,' out of a Lewis Carroll poem...' "; Pg. 49: "Vance had invented a small carnivore that he fancifully named the white rabbit, and Del responded by designing the March hare. Its main distinction, he claimed, was complete lunacy. The way he described it, it sounded like a cross between a howler monkey and a gecko. Carol smiled, thinking that it was characteristic of the two young men to design a 'rabbit' that was not a rabbit, and a 'hare' that was not a hare. "

"Aquila unrolled the parchment. In his strong, even calligraphy, Vance had copied seven stanzas of Leis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark.' Those were the stanzas from which Madison and March had taken the terminology for the sub-elementary particles they had described and discovered. Carol remembered the end of the poem: 'For although common Snarks do no manner of harm,/Yet I feel it my duty to say/Some are Boojums--' "

"He regaled her with incredible stories about far-off spheres. About worlds with time portals, or run by supercomputers, or populated by white rabbits and samurai (although the latter even the gullible Demora had thought sounded somewhat farfetched). "

"Its edges sparkled with transport effect long moments before the center did, and it vanished the same way, with a gleaming curve of cockpit windows lingering to the end like the Cheshire Cat's smile. "

'But I'm not Alice, and this isn't the looking-glass!' snapped B'Elanna.

Tuvok looked perplexed. 'I must make a mental note to research the original source legends; it is a powerful mythos that holds sway alike over Native American tribes, human Anglo-Saxons, and Klingons.' "

She sighed. 'When I was a little girl, one of my favorite books was Alice in Wonderland. My mother introduced me to it, in fact.'

'I can't say I'm familiar with it.'

'I wouldn't imagine it made the Thallonian best-seller list... It was actually somewhat subversive in its time. It was created to be a satire of Brit-- of a particular Earth government. But functioning in and of itself, it's the story of a young girl who falls down a hole burrowed by an animal called a rabbit and finds herself in a strange and mystical realm in which no one and nothing makes any sense. It has maintained its popularity for centuries.'

'I can easily understand why. Entering a realm that makes no sense? My dear Lieutenant, the technical term for that is 'birth.' Or are you under the mistaken impression that life as a whole makes sense?' "

Pg. 82: "'Hello, Morgan,' said the young woman. 'It's me. Cheshire.' "; Pg. 83-84: "'That young woman . . . she seemed to know you. What was her name? Cheshire? You seemed to react quite strongly to it.'

Morgan said nothing, and Kurdwurble studied her closely. 'Is Cheshire a particularly emotional name? A very rare one, perhaps, among humans?'

'Its . . . not common, no. Not as common as John or Bill or . . .' She repressed a smile, which was something she did by habit since she was not particularly inclined to display amusement. 'Or Kurdwurble.' "

"He then made it clear that he was not easily distracted as he asked again, 'So, 'Cheshire.'... Is there something about Cheshire that is--?'

'It simply brought back memories,' she said stiffly, turning away from him. 'There was a creature called the Cheshire Cat . . . in a work of fiction entitled Alice in Wonderland. The Cheshire Cat would speak in tantalizing ways and then would slowly vanish, one part of his body at a time, until only his smile remained.'

'His smile I do not think such a thing is possible.'

'Well, it is supposed to be a work of fiction.' " [Some other refs. to the Cheshire Cat, e.g., pg. 86, 187.]

"'...She called me her 'Party Girl.' 'The Walking Grin.' There was a character called the Cheshire Cat in that book I mentioned to you, Alice in Wonderland, and he always had this big smile. After mom read me that book for the first time, she started calling me Cheshire because I always had this big stupid smile plastered on my face all the time. I felt I didn't dare ever let her see me sad, because I didn't want to take any risk that I might ever depress her...' "

"Harry felt his head droop and he jerked it upright. 'B'Elanna,' he began... 'it's oh three thirty. We've done pretty well on Neelix's coffee thus far, but if we keep this up much longer I'm going to start seeing white rabbits with pocket watches running around.'

She narrowed her eyes. What the hell are you talking about, Starfleet?'

Kim was suddenly embarrassed. 'You know,' he stammered as he felt his face grow hot, 'Alice in Wonderland. Didn't your mom read that to you when you were a kid?'

A shadow fell on Torres's face. 'My mother never read to me,' she replied softly.

Kim closed his eyes. Foot in mouth again. 'Well, anyway, it's a children's story. Alice was chasing the white rabbit and fell through the rabbit hole, and . . .'

...'Fell through the rabbit hole,' she echoed softly. She rapidly keyed in some information and gazed at the schematic. 'There's something out of the ordinary going on here, Harry. Not a wormhole, no, but something else...' "

"She turned to him, grinning. 'Alice in Wonderland, huh? Tell me more.' At Harry's look of utter confusion, she added. 'This is what we call brainstorming, Starfleet. Get our minds out of the rut of the typical. C'mon, what else?'

'Torres, you have totally lost me.'

'Nothing new there.' She softened the words with a friendly wink. 'So, what else?'

...'Queen of Hearts. Caterpillars on mushrooms, the Mad Hatter. Dormouse. Um, Through the Looking Glass. Off with their heads . . . um, tea party--'

Pg. 44: "Yes, the Excalibur had been something of a family to her--but oftentimes it seemed a family to her in the same way that Alice considered the residents of Wonderland a family. In Wonderland, it was as if there was some sort of great, massive joke that everyone else was in on . . . except Alice. That was how Shelby felt. She was like Alice at the Mad hatter's tea party, and oddball residents like McHenry and Kebron were at either end shouting, 'No room! No room!' while Calhoun sat serenely on a large mushroom, observing all the insanity around him with aplomb. She readily admitted to herself that she might be exaggerating her recollections. But if she was, it certainly wasn't by much. ";

"Alice in WonderlandCommon misquote of the title of Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a satire of the 19th-century British government whose plot focuses on a young girl who tumbles through a rabbit hole into a fantastical realm where nothing makes sense. It is often confused with its sequel, Through the Looking Glass. "

"Cheshire Cat, TheA character in the Lewis Carroll book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The Cheshire Cat could slowly turn its body invisible, until all that remained was its enormous grin. Robin Lefler's mother, Morgan Lefler, nicknames her 'Cheshire,' because of Robin's constant efforts to bolster her mother's spirits. "

"A sudden image of a little girl and a white rabbit appeared in her mind. This whole thing reminded her of the famous Lewis Carroll children's story, and she was most definitely cast in the role of Alice. Where, then, was the white rabbit, the one who had lured her here with the . . .

The gateway. She remembered now, remembered it all. The gateway was the rabbit hole into this strange, bizarre world, where the most dignified captain in the fleet had made a clumsy pass to her, where she was reduced to being a terrified cadet or elevated to the equally false rank of a hometown hero. The gateway had been real, and whoever was casting these illusions was real. No white rabbit, but a trickster par excellence. "

Pg. -5: [Acknowledgments page] "The authors wish to acknowledge that the poem quoted in Chapter 23 comprises the closing lines of Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll--a book much beloved by young Jules Bashir, as well as by many previous generations of youthful adventurers. "

science fiction - Alice in Wonderland

galaxy

2500

Drake, David. The Tank Lords. New York: Baen (1997); pg. 123.

"The neon sign was unlighted, but Sparrow knew it well--a cat with a Cheshire grin, gesturing with a forepaw toward her lifted haunches. "

'Cheshire Cat effect. Cass doesn't call it that--she uses a string of Science gibberish. But there's a time lag before the field stresses disappear form our universe. It's long enough to keep the star intact as it moves into the caesura...' ";

"One of the rabbits who was attending the three gods watched him intently with head canted to one side and nostrils twitching. Occasionally it wrote frantically on an odd, folded piece of paper with a brushlike pen. He was reminded of a comic book he once read, Alice in Wonderland. There had been rabbits in her dream too. "

"And through these rooms the guests ran, drunk at last, among the robot fantasies, amid the Dormice and Mad Hatters, the Trolls and Giants, the Black Cats and White Queens, and under their dancing feet the floor gave off the massive pumping beat of a hidden and telltale heart. "

[Chapter 2 title: "George falls down the Rabbit Hole "] "The first thing George remembered was falling down a brightly lighted well... It was as if he were falling down Alice's rabbit hole, giddily, swiftly, but instead of shelves and cupboards the walls of this hole had only the single strip of light. He ought to have been afraid. Instead... Would he land lightly, like Alice, a bit of dandelion fluff on the air--or disastrously, like Humpty Dumpty? "

"Most of the New Mexico Meson Physics Facility... Everything I saw made me think of expensive sets for vintage science-fiction movies: the interior of the main accelerator ring, glowing eggshell white and curving away like the space-station corridors in 2001... Still I had a difficult time trying to explain to Amanda the Alice in Wonderland mazes that constituted high energy physics. "

"This is until you're forty-five, ladies, after which you vanish into thin air like the smile of the Cheshire cat, leaving behind only a disgusting grossness and a subtle poison that automatically infects every man under twenty-one. "

[Imagery from Alice in Wonderland] "Like the four-foot-high concrete mushroom and the hookah-smoking caterpillar curled up on it. Not your typical garden ornament, certainly, but it fit the theme of this one.

Brennan smiled, and then the caterpillar turned and looked at him. Its cheeks puffed out and blew a hazy cloud of smoke, which engulfed Brennan before he could shut his mouth... the caterpillar spoke in a naggingly familiar voice through mechanical lips.

'Welcome to the magic kingdom,' it said as Brennan's eyes closed. "

science fiction - Alice in Wonderland

New York: New York City

1994

Leigh, Stephen. "The Color of His Skin " in Wild Cards: Book II of a New Cycle: Marked Cards (George R. R. Martin, ed.) New York: Baen (1994); pg. 170.

"'You have a really idiotic smile, Jo Ann. Did you know that?'

'Hey, I'm not the Cheshire Cat around here.' "

science fiction - Alice in Wonderland

New York: New York City

2025

Dick, Philip K. The Penultimate Truth. New York: Dell (1964); pg. 11.

"'A book.'....

'An especially good book, he real prewar thing, not a Xeroxed copy. Know what of?'

'Alice in Wonderland.' He had heard so much about that, had always wanted to own it and read it.

"The pageant of reconciliation had reached its final stages... The cube of tapestry, an empty vase before, began to flower with them. It flowered with bald-faced ladies in head-dresses which looked like crescents or cones or the astonishing coiffure worn by the Duchess in Alice in Wonderland. "

"In the lobby she caught sight of the poster for the Corner House, which was showing the version of Alice Graham had restored. She jogged to the cinema to give herself another look at the film. The auditorium was full of children enjoying Laurel and Hardy in the roles of the Walrus and the Carpenter. Perhaps some small children a the back were restless. "

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